Custody in Crisis: How Family Courts Nationwide Put Children in Danger
More than 58 children have been killed since 2008, after courts ignored accusations of physical or sexual abuse in awarding custody. Worse yet, they demonize the parent who sounds the alarm, further isolating and endangering vulnerable children.
Washed Clean: In Cameroon, Kimberley Officials Launder Conflict Diamonds onto World...
Market day in the riverside town of Gbitti in eastern Cameroon is a colorful affair. Farmers sit on the bare red earth, their wares...
Training the Planet: America’s Vast Global Network to Instruct Foreign...
At 9:30 a.m. on a gray winter Monday, the State Department officials began certifying the names at a rate of one every two minutes...
The Blood Rubies of Montepuez: Troubling Pattern of Violence and...
MONTEPUEZ, Mozambique — Mila Kunis embodies just the kind of woman that Gemfields plc, the world’s leading supplier of rare colored gemstones, wishes to...
Moral Hazard: How the United States Trained Cambodian Human Rights Abusers,...
PREAH SIHANOUK PROVINCE, Cambodia—They were some of the most searing images of violence to emerge from the land crisis that swept Cambodia over the...
Tax Cheating Rife as Papua New Guinea Becomes Top Timber Exporter,...
Papua New Guinea, now the world’s largest producer of tropical timber, is losing more than $100 million annually to widespread tax evasion in its...
HSBC Judge: Public Has a Right to HSBC’s Dirty Linen
In what experts are describing as a victory for transparency, a federal judge in New York has ordered the U.S. Justice Department to release compliance monitoring reports produced as part of a $1.9 billion settlement with banking giant HSBC, which pleaded guilty to laundering drug money and violating sanctions.
Via US Accounts, Feds Pursue Hezbollah’s Alleged African Cash
The U.S. Justice Department this month moved to confiscate roughly $1.2 million held in major multi-national banks which prosecutors believe passed through a network...
Trade Secrets: Coca-Cola’s Hidden Formula for Avoiding Taxes
Coca-Cola’s most closely held secret is its mysterious formula – Merchandise7x. But the company, with a market capitalization of $177 billion, is even more secretive about the financial value of its intangible capital, with leading brands like Coke and Sprite not listed on financial statements as "assets"–itself a contested term. We probed Coca-Cola’s hidden intangible capital–and as much as $11.5 billion in tax avoidance.
Clinton Foundation Faces Revisions–and Possible Reckoning
Years of incomplete disclosures, questionable accounting practices and payments to friends and associates may catch up with the Clinton Foundation, which has until November 16 to file more than 10 years of amended tax returns, in a belated attempt to set the record straight. The problem, says a financial analyst and close Clinton-watcher, is that it will be impossible for the foundation to amend its tax statements without admitting to criminal wrongdoing.
Asylum Under Assault
Central American mothers and children fleeing violence in their home countries are flocking to the United States, requesting political asylum under the United Nations Convention on Refugees. US immigration policy, however, has focused largely on treating them as illegal immigrants, criminalizing victims of violence in the process.
Azerbaijan Journalist Sentenced to 7.5 Years after Exposing Presidential Corruption
Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova is sentenced to seven and a half years in prison by an Azerbaijan court after reporting on corruption with in ruling Aliyev family, in what human rights organizations and journalists across the globe dismissed as trumped up charges meant to silence investigative reporting.
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